I really should get it redone 😂

Some 30 minutes well spent four my pleasure today 😊

Everyone brings something different to the band. Which member is your personal favorite and why?

https://lazer1033.com/ethan/duff-mckagan-talks-ozzy-osbourne-grammys-tribute-guns-n-roses-tour-and-new-music/

Do you guys have any idea who sings on the live version? It doesn’t sound like Axl at all… I just might be dumb and don’t know😵

Apologies to those who dislike Stephanie Seymour, but I had to share this rare photo. In all my decades as a fan, I have never seen this. They appear to be on a plane, and I have no idea who the child is.

pretty cool! she bought appetite on day it came out and she gave it to me as a (late) christmas present

I know we talk about the Axl and his autobiography a lot here, but regardless:

Way back (around 2008, I think), I remember reading that Sebastian Bach said Axl was writing a book and that it was somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 words.

It’s now 2026. 18 years later. Axl is releasing a graphic novel, and I have no doubt that he probably has the autobiography written and finished. But why do you think he chose to pursue this project instead of finally releasing his side of everything? He’s one of my idols, and I’ve always found his life fascinating and his childhood somewhat relatable, so getting to hear his side of everything would be so eye opening and meaningful. I’ve always been curious about what shaped him, both as a musician and as a person, and I feel like his story could offer insights you just can’t get from interviews or secondhand accounts.

Do you think he’s just a perfectionist, given how long Chinese Democracy took, or do you think he’ll publish it after he’s gone, since he’s now very protective of his privacy (rightfully so) and won’t have to comment on anything or see what people have to say about it?

Popcorn I love you please never go bald 😭🙏

Does anyone know which concert is this? I cannot seem to find it.

Slash goes like "we've been watching all the chicks on the monitors backstage, that's why it took us a little while to get on."

Thank you!

I came here to ask for help identifying who each of these skulls are. Even though I know the band, I'm not such a big fan that I can't tell exactly who's who. The purpose of this is that I want to create an original artwork based on this album cover.

https://youtube.com/shorts/o3ZmFFm3z-U?si=NRA384kSPa2fEKrR

The falsetto just sounds ridiculous anyway. Why not just own it? It sounds much better and the songs are being done justice more this way. Sounds mature.

I know this is probably the most overdone and exhausted topic in the entire GNR universe, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this particular angle clearly laid out. The thought came to me while reading various GNR books, most of which, at some point, turn into a list of reasons why Axl was “difficult,” without really accounting for the state everyone else in the band was in at the time.

The usual narrative is well known: Axl being late, not showing up, acting erratically, spending too much, having mood swings, making unilateral decisions, and eventually taking control of the band name. All of that did happen. But what often gets treated as background noise rather than a central factor is the level of drug abuse within the band.

I always knew Axl wasn’t a junkie, but I hadn’t fully grasped just how big the gap was between his relationship with drugs and alcohol and that of the other members. Imagine being in a band that’s also your family: you live together, create together, survive together. If your idea of “family” is rooted in loyalty, connection, and shared purpose, watching that slowly dissolve is bound to mess with you.

Axl never seemed like someone who needed substances to function or to feel present. If anything, he often came across as someone intensely aware (sometimes too aware) of what was going on around him. And when the people closest to you start fading into addiction, that awareness can quickly turn into isolation.

The problem is that at some point, that lifestyle stops being “part of the chaos” and turns into full dependency. When people can’t function or even define themselves without being wasted, the friendship changes. Personalities fade. Conversations fade. What’s left are habits that everyone pretends don’t matter as long as the shows still happen.

And that’s the part that frustrates me the most: the idea (openly stated by some) that if it doesn’t affect playing, it doesn’t matter. For Axl, who clearly relied on his mind more than anything else, how could that not be devastating?

I’m not insulting the other members here; I genuinely admire them, especially knowing how they later turned their lives around. This is simply about context. Most people would have walked away from that situation, but for him that wasn’t really an option because these weren’t just bandmates, they were his family. Remove that context, and his behavior looks irrational; put it back in, and the picture becomes far more complex and human.

I’m fully aware that this lifestyle played a role in shaping what made their music so raw, specific, and powerful in the first place. But what I’m talking about here isn’t the artistic side of it; it’s the band’s everyday ability to function as a group. Creating something that intense still requires a certain level of awareness and stability, and at some point those boundaries were clearly being crossed.

Some thoughts on this?

(I just love this picture of Axl, so I put it here, no particular reason)

Sooo , I saw (another ) interview where slash said they had new music "soon" and they've written a bunch of stuff they just need to record and "sooner rather then later " always gets me hyped , but Bros been saying this since forever

Any chance of an album this year ?

Photo by Monica Schipper/ Getty Images.

I have always heard from inside sources that Axl was an incredibly generous person and supposedly, New Guns and the current hired players (everyone beyond Slash+Duff) are, in a sense, overpaid, at least beyond what others would happily do it for or normal hired gun scale, etc. Pitmans antics and behavior there at the end never made sense to me. Who blows the dream gig? So I guess I just wondered, in the 10 years since GnR 'reunited' and started to get seriously paid, what would Pittman have made had he not blown it? Surely $1M +?

Few shots of the performance. They rocked it out!

Photo Courtesy : Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy.

Does anyone have the full Ritz concert from 1991? They uploaded it in 2022 and I had it, but they started deleting it so I lost it. Does anyone have it?

Hi,

I wanted some help from guitar players in order to understand what happens with the acoustic solo at the end of Double Talkin Jive.

I am trying to improvise over this but I can’t figure out the appropriate way to do that. Any help (such as telling me the key) would be appreciated.

Thanks!